Deuteronomy 7:15
וְהֵסִיר יְהוָה מִמְּךָ כָּל־חֹלִי וְכָל־מַדְוֵי מִצְרַיִם הָרָעִים אֲשֶׁר יָדַעְתָּ לֹא יְשִׂימָם בָּךְ וּנְתָנָם בְּכָל־שֹׂנְאֶֽיךָ׃
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וְהֵסִ֧יר יְהוָ֛ה מִמְּךָ֖ כָּל־חֹ֑לִי וְכָל־מַדְוֵי֩ מִצְרַ֨יִם הָרָעִ֜ים אֲשֶׁ֣ר יָדַ֗עְתָּ לֹ֤א יְשִׂימָם֙ בָּ֔ךְ וּנְתָנָ֖ם בְּכָל־שֹׂנְאֶֽיךָ׃
καὶ περιελεῖ κύριος ἀπὸ σοῦ πᾶσαν μαλακίαν· καὶ πάσας νόσους Αἰγύπτου τὰς πονηρὰς ἃς καὶ ὅσα ἔγνως οὐκ ἐπιθήσει ἐπὶ σέ, καὶ ἐπιθήσει αὐτὰ τοὺς μισοῦντός σε.
Greek text from Swete's edition, CC BY-SA 4.0
Latin (Vulgate)
Auferet Dominus a te omnem languorem: et infirmitates Ægypti pessimas, quas novisti, non inferet tibi, sed cunctis hostibus tuis.
El Señor quitará de ti toda enfermedad; y no pondrá sobre ti ninguna de las malas enfermedades de Egipto, que tú conoces, sino que las pondrá sobre todos los que te odian.
Classic Spanish (Reina-Valera 1909)
Y quitará Jehová de ti toda enfermedad; y todas las malas plagas de Egipto, que tú sabes, no las pondrá sobre ti, antes las pondrá sobre todos los que te aborrecieren.
And the LORD will remove from you all sickness. He will not lay upon you any of the terrible diseases you knew in Egypt, but He will inflict them on all who hate you.
✦ What the text says
Summary
Deuteronomy 7:15 states that Yehovah will remove all sickness from the addressee and will not place upon him the harmful diseases of Egypt that he experienced; instead, those diseases will be set upon those who hate him.
Key words
- he.Sir ("he will remove", H5493G) — hiphil causative form, sequential perfect, indicating an action that continues a chain of promises begun earlier in the passage.
- cho.li ("sickness", H2483) — masculine singular noun in construct with kol ("every", H3605), forming the phrase "every sickness."
- mad.vei ("diseases of", H4064) — masculine plural construct noun, linking directly to mitz.Ra.yim ("Egypt", H4714G) to specify whose diseases are meant.
- ya.Da'.ta ("you experienced", H3045) — qal perfect, second person masculine singular, marking a completed past action known personally by the addressee.
- ye.si.Ma ("he will put", H7760H) — qal imperfect, third person masculine singular, expressing a future or ongoing negated action ("he will not put").
What the text says
The verse opens with the narrative vav on ve.he.Sir ("and he will remove", H9001 + H5493G), continuing a sequence of verbs describing what Yehovah will do. The subject is Yah.weh (H3068G), and the object is kol-cho.li ("every sickness", H3605 + H2483), removed mi.me.kha ("from you", H4480A + H9031).
The second half introduces a second object, khol-mad.vei mitz.Ra.yim ha.ra.'Im ("all the diseases of Egypt, the harmful ones"), qualified by the relative clause 'a.Sher ya.Da'.ta ("which you experienced", H0834A + H3045), a qal perfect denoting a completed, known experience. The negated imperfect lo' ye.si.Mam ("he will not put them", H3808 + H7760H + H9038) states that these diseases will not be placed ba.kh ("on you", H9003 + H9031).
The final clause uses the sequential perfect u.ne.ta.Nam ("and he will set them", H9001 + H5414H + H9038), redirecting the diseases be.khol-so.ne.'Ei.kha ("on all who hate you", H9003 + H3605 + H8130 + H9031), where so.ne.'Ei is a qal participle in construct plural form, meaning "those who hate," functioning as a substantive.
Differences between versions
The LXX renders cho.li ("sickness", H2483) as μαλακίαν ("softness/weakness") and mad.vei ("diseases of", H4064) as νόσους ("diseases"), adding the phrase ἃς καὶ ὅσα ("which and as many as") not directly matching the single relative 'a.Sher in the Hebrew. The Vulgate uses languorem ("languor/weakness") for cho.li and infirmitates ("infirmities") for mad.vei, and renders the final clause with sed ("but") introducing the contrast, where the Hebrew uses a simple sequential vav (u.ne.ta.Nam) rather than an explicit contrastive particle.
This explanation describes the text using linguistic data; it adds no doctrine or confessional interpretation.